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Brazil's Bolsonaro agrees to transition of power without conceding election

Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro speaks from his official residence at the Alvorada Palace in Brasilia, Brazil, on 1 November 2022, giving his first public comments since losing the presidential runoff on 30 October. © Eraldo Peres/AP

Brazil's far-right President Jair Bolsonaro has "authorised" the transition to a new government, without acknowledging his narrow defeat by his leftist rival Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.

In a short speech that lasted just over two minutes - his first public comments since Sunday’s election - Bolsonaro did not concede the election.

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